Landholders and community groups who want to know the facts about their rights in relation to potential coal seam gas and mining developments are the big winners from a joint QUT-Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) project.

Victims of online fraud need greater support to help them overcome the often serious health effects that follow discovery of the deception, QUT cybersecurity researcher Cassandra Cross says.

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Young girls are just as likely as young boys to be sexually abused by a member of the clergy, a new QUT study has shown.

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Assisted death should be available to people with incurable and terminal illness who persistently request it. This is a key recommendation of a report from leading academics released today.

What's the best way to help your high schooler get into university and survive the transition?

Giving up your time for free is not everyone's idea of university life but for many law and justice students at QUT, it is an essential part of their learning.

The military should be cautiously training soldiers to disobey unlawful superior's orders as a way of legally protecting them against a criminal conviction, according to QUT legal expert Dr Carmel O'Sullivan.